"Open the lid, pour in the mushrooms, plug in the water, turn on the power, and in a few moments, it will be cleaned. In Shuanghua Village, Shudai Village Committee, Limushan Town, Qiongzhong Li and Miao Autonomous County, Zhang Qiulin confidently introduced the tiger milk mushroom cleaning machine he made.
Don't look at this small and simple cleaning machine, but it is a big "magic weapon" for Zhang Qiulin to crack the development of the tiger milk mushroom industry.
Last year, with the support of the Provincial Association for Science and Technology, the Jiadai Village Committee decided to use the resources under the forest to develop the economy under the forest, and adopted the development model of "company + cooperative + farmer" to plant tiger milk mushrooms under the betel nut tree and rubber forest.
This is a new industry, and in order to make it acceptable to the masses, we first tried to grow 10,000 fungus packets. Tang Wangxing, the first secretary of Shudai Village, introduced that when it was just developed in 2022, Zhang Qiulin, a hard-working and Xi willing farmer in Shuanghua Village, was mobilized to take the lead in the "first battle", allowing him to learn Xi management and planting techniques during the trial planting period, and first make an example of the industry and give the villagers a "reassurance".
In the process of experimental planting, the Provincial Association for Science and Technology cooperated with the Institute of Thermal Sciences and invited a team of experts to the village for training and technical guidance. "To keep the soil moist, the water content is 40 to 50 percent, which means that the hands are moist, but the water is not visible. Xu Lin, an assistant researcher in the Edible Fungi Recycling Agriculture Technology Research Group of the Institute of Environment and Plant Protection of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, reminded Zhang Qiulin of matters to pay attention to when guiding Zhang Qiulin's planting.
Zhang Qiulin, who learned the technique, began to use his own 45 acres of betel nut land are planted, and the planting cycle of tiger milk mushroom is 3 months. In the planting process, Zhang Qiulin found that the cleaning process from planting to harvesting, to cleaning, slicing, drying or drying is the most time-consuming and labor-intensive.
On the first day of picking, the three of us in the family went into battle at the same time, brushing the mushrooms one by one with a brush, and washing them until midnight. Zhang Qiulin said that the main reason is that the husband and wife are also old, and their backs hurt after sitting for a long time.
Difficulties must always be overcome. So Zhang Qiulin gave full play to his mastery of electric welding technology, bought back brushes and iron sheets and other materials, and made a cleaning machine by himself, which greatly improved the cleaning efficiency of mushrooms.
In the past, it took two days to dig for two hours and clean manually, but now it only takes two hours to clean after digging for two days. Zhang Qiulin said the convenience brought by the cleaning machine.
When Zhang Qiulin shared his small technological innovation, he did not forget to calculate the income account of the tiger milk mushroom industry, planting about 3,000 mushroom packs per mu, buying 1 fungus bag for 3 yuan, and the output per mu was less than 10,000 yuan, but the output value per mu was 15 to 180,000 yuan, and the income from tiger milk mushrooms planted in 2023 will reach 70,000 yuan, making Zhang Qiulin the first person to eat "crabs" when the Zhudai Village Committee developed the tiger milk mushroom industry.
Driven by Zhang Qiulin, at present, 9 households in the Shudai Village Committee have joined the development of tiger milk mushroom industry cooperation, and a total of 70,000 mushroom packs have been planted.
I'm going to make a bigger washing machine that can clean the mushrooms of the whole village. Zhang Qiulin said that he should help everyone solve difficulties with his own efforts, so that this seemingly ordinary tiger milk mushroom can lead the villagers of Zhandai to stride towards the road of rural industry revitalization. (Reporter: Wang Lijuan).